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FOUNTAIN ATTACHMENT FOR PENS- No. 275,825. Patented Apr. 17,1883.

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TIMOTHY HAWVKES AND LEWIS A. HAWKES, OF JERSEY CITY, N. J.

FOUNTAIN ATTACHMENT FOR PENS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,825, dated April-17,1883.

Application filed November 13, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may gone-em Be it known that we, TIMOTHY HAWKES and Lewis A. HAWKES, of Jersey City, Hudson county, State ofNew Jersey, have invented an Improvementin Fountain Attachments for Pens, of which the following description, 11 connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

Our invention relates to a fountain attachment for pens, by which a common pen in a common pen-holder is enabled to take up a large amount of ink, when dipped, so that a considerable number of lines may be written at each dipping of the pen.

The attachment consists essentially of a metallic hood or cover inclosing a space between it and the back of the pen, the said hood being provided with a loop or socket fitted to embrace the shank portion of the pen that enters the usual pen-holder, the said hood thus being held securely in proper position relative to the pen.' Thehood is so shaped that the space or ink-reservoir between it and the pen gradually increases in depth from the point toward the shank portion of the pen, thus insuring the largest possible space or reservoir for ink consistent with a proper capillary holding power, and also causing the ink to flow by capillary attraction toward the point of the pen instead of away therefrom. A very large amount of ink is thus held with great security, there being less danger of a drop of .ink falling from the pen than is the case with an ordinary pen not provided with a fountain attachment.

Fountain attachments have been heretofore devised consisting of various forms of receptacles for ink or fingers extending over the front or back of the pen and attached to the said pen or pen-holder in various ways; and we do not broadly claim an attachment for increasing the quantity of ink that can be held by capillary attachment upon a pen; nor do we claim aslide or collar adjustable upon the shank of a pen for securing a fountain attachment to such pen, which fountain attachment is integral with said slide or collar.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a pen provided with a fountain attachment embodying this invention Fig. 2 a side elevation or cover, Z), shaped to correspond with the particular style of pen upon which it is intended to be used, there being in general terms, as many different forms of attachment as there are essentially difl'erent shaped pens, and it not being attempted, as heretofore, to produce an attachment that will work equally well with any kind of pen. The hood I) is shaped to almost completely inclose the pen a, there being thus formed a chamber or reservoir, 0, between the back of the pen and the inside of the hood. The edges 2 of the hood are nearly parallel with the edges of the pen, as best shown in Fig. 3, the space being so small as to cause the ink to be securely held by capillary attraction. The middle portion of the hood between its edges 2, is arched up above the back of the pen, the space between the hood and pen increasing from the point toward the shank portion 61 of the pen, as shown by Figs. 1, 4, and 5, the latter showing the maximum size of the chamber 0 near the shank of the. pen. By this construction a very large reservoir is afforded, while there is no danger of the ink escaping, and the ink naturally travels toward the point portion of the pen.

It will be seen that when the reservoir attachment is constructed, as herein described, with especial reference to the shape of the pen, it is essential that it should be held securely in a definite position with relation to the pen, so that the space or opening between the edge 2 of the hood and the edge of the pen may remain uniform and equal on each side of the pen.

The proper holding of the hood upon the pen isinsured by its holding-socket 6, made as a sleeve fitted to completely surround and embrace the shank portion (1 of the pen, it being slipped over the said shank and remaining just below the portion that is inserted in the pen-holder.

One of the especial features of this invenstantially parallel with the edges of the pen,

tion consists in making the attachment to correspond with the particular style of pen with which it is to be used, instead of attempting to make one that will operate with any pen, such latter attachments usually holding a much smaller amount of ink, and that with less security, so that the ink is likely to be shaken ofl' and fall upon the paper.

We claim- The hood b, provided with thereservoir c and collar (2, and having its edges 2 to fit suband constituting a fountain attachment for pens, as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

TIMOTHY HAWKES. LEWIS A. HAWKES. WVitnesses CORNELIUS S. SEE, JAS. R. SHEATE. 

